Wall Germander (Teucrium chamedrys) is a perennialsub shrub of the family Labiatae with a woody creeping rhizome bearing tufts of square, ascending, purplish herbaceous stems. The leaves are opposite, dark-green in colour, pointed oval and have rounded teeth. The flowers are pinkish-purple and arranged in whorls of two to six in the upper leaf axils forming extended terminal spikes. The calyx tube has five teeth; the corolla has one five- lobed lower lip, with a large spreading middle lobe. There is no upper lip so the stamens are exposed. the fruit consists of four smooth nutlets. Research Wall Germander
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